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AN 



Inspired Message 



BY 



JOHN JOHNSTON. 



PHILADELPHIA 
1890. 



AN 



Inspired Message 



BY 



JOHN JOHNSTON. 




PHILADELPHIA: 
1890. 






Copyright, 1890, by JOHN JOHNSTON. 



AN INSPIRED MESSAGE. 



In a firm determination and trust in the Almighty to rise 
from and outlive an attack of illness which medical skill had 
to a considerable extent relieved but failed to get fully under, 
after some months of close, inward study I began to discover 
that the disordered condition I had fixed my mind upon over- 
coming was caused by spirit-action upon my system, and 
afterwards that that action was wholly and entirely in violation 
of the Law of the Creator, effected by devices (that for vil- 
lanous intent and force of deception there is no parallel) of 
corrupt spirits, people that walked long upon their feet in 
other worlds and by accident and not of their own knowledge 
nor of any command of the Creator lit upon this world at a 
time that people were not so numerous in it as they are now. 

After I learned to submit my hand to be guided in writing, 
by systematized interrogatories and months of perseverance I 
became sensible of the presence of an Ordained Spirit in the 
service of the Creator within me, and was made gradually 
aware of a long-continued out-of-order state of things in the 
world, and of need to pursue with care and submit to the 
people of the world the result of my inquiry. For that con- 
dition, lamentable in every sense, has been effected by the 
workings and deceptions of corrupt spirits foreign to it; 
barriered from being lifted from it by chemical formations in 
the atmosphere that their devices within it have caused ; and 
the breaking up of them, and their removal from the world, 
a thing of easy accomplishment when their presence becomes 
known, is required by the Creator as soon as people are pre- 
pared by a knowledge of them to aid in removing them from 
themselves. And towards that end the Holy Spirit, who is 



vigilant in care, and long interrupted in the duties for which 
He was ordained and sent to the world, has instructed by the 
Ordained Spirit within, that writing has been made by the 
Creator a sure and clear means for people to acquire undoubt- 
ing knowledge of the presence of life, of intelligence distinct 
from their own within their bodies, so that they may see with- 
out cavil or question into the need to themselves that is to 
make the efforts that are possible consistent with the efforts 
that are imperative on them of providing for the time the 
necessaries of their being, to check towards putting a final 
end to the dangerous mockery and destructive workings, that, 
unsuspected by them, are going on in spirit within and around 
them. And care exercised at first will render ease to after- 
work ; for the instructions for writing under spirit-guidance 
being long in the world without any clear knowledge of it 
having been got to people's minds, the corrupt or fallen 
spirits got to a knowledge of it, as endeavors were being 
made to draw inquiring attention to it, and whenever attention 
became attracted the persons submitting themselves to it were 
flooded in upon by the corrupt spirits, and the working-power 
of their minds so acted upon that frivolity or fanaticism almost 
invariably resulted from it. Hence, before beginning any in- 
quiry, care should be had to order in words, verbal or in 
writing, in any positive form harmonizing with trust in the 
power of the Creator, the Author and Sustainer of life, every 
interruption to the plain working of the system to cease and 
be no more attempted, and the corrupt spirits, the fallen of 
other worlds, to go from within and from around the person ; 
and they are herewith forbid to enter any other person or 
substance, and a power of the Creator is in the world that 
will enforce their obedience. 

There are then other forms of spirit non-intelligent, but 
docile, in the world and within its people that in the out-of- 
order condition of the world have long been guided by the 
corrupt spirits in it ; they are very numerous, and taught and 
guided by the corrupt spirits have had a very blinding and 
injurious bearing upon people. The brute of every kind 
in spirit in one general expression should be ordered from 



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within and from around the person. Of itself its tendencies 
are obedience to the Creator. But through deception upon 
it, for in spirit it is quick to obey ;' it has been obeying the 
corrupt spirits, looking to them as of the Creator's Power. 
But severed from people and other moving substances it will 
be directed and lifted by a Power of the Creator from the 
world to where of His Order it belongs. 

Lest, however, that disobedience should for a while occur 
and attempts at deception be persevered in, for the corrupt 
spirits, long adepts in crime, have in the past when discovery 
was near them resorted to many devices, questions should be 
consistent and short, and answers of guidance accepted with 
cautious care, examining closely the import of every word 
that appears at the point of the pen. For being within the 
body, side by side with the nerves of the system and working 
power of the mind, they form expressions within the structure 
of the mind that draw the person's own thoughts in less or 
more force to work along with them. It might, therefore, be 
difficult at first to discern the right from the wrong, or the 
truth from falsehood ; for the action upon the hand which 
should be felt corresponding with expressions rising in the 
mind would in interruption sometimes be found differing 
widely. The bearing, therefore, to the formation of words 
upon the hand, while it clearly tells of the existence of in- 
telligent life within the person and around the body which is 
of entirely separate existence, should be carefully examined 
and the truth of the writing by it put under interrogatory 
test. For the corrupt spirits, the cause of every illness and 
irregularity that are in the world, being numerous to the 
extent that one or more of them, with deluded aid, are within 
every person of corporeal substance in it, and, by causing 
falsehood to be blindly seen, would draw, in an unseen into- 
way, the working power of the mind from the aiding power 
within the person, and cause people, unconsciously to them- 
selves, to aid in developing thoughts that might retard for 
a while the rectifying work going on within them. 

But as a sense of the reality spreads, a power will be 
awakened within people and within the world that will aid 



the Ordained Spirit that is within people, and the Ordained 
Spirit that is not within people, but that is governed by the 
Holy Spirit and the Fixed Power of the Creator in the world, 
to break the bindings that are within the people, and to break 
up the drawing together of levenous particles in the atmos- 
phere of the world. For the people of the past of the world 
are yet within it, sensible to everything that is occurring. 
But in the most part blindedly ignorant of any disorder in 
spirit outside of a believed half-countenanced caprice or 
harmless refractoriness among a portion of them in the spirit, 
or of anything being wrong aside from the ordinance of the 
Creator except people's waywardness at all in the world. 
And they are long warned by the Creator for aid to the Holy 
Spirit in the world as soon as a sense of the error they are 
in begins to dawn upon them. And the entire artifices and 
workings of nearly four thousand nine hundred years in cor- 
ruption of spirit, with intent to subvert the Law of the 
Creator, are not more than with their aid, before the world 
begins to move from its present sphere, can be readily put 
final end to, and the time is nearing fast when it will begin 
to move to the light of another sun ; and with their aid the 
people walking on their feet and they themselves will the 
more readily understand what is being now conveyed to 
them. But in no sense is aid of the Spirit to be asked for 
by people ; the Spirit is part of the Power of the Creator, 
and whatever aid is given by the Spirit is of the Creator, and 
trust in Him, in close scrutiny, will bring the power of the 
mind into close harmony with the Spirit. And as soon as 
the hold the corrupt spirits have so long held by in the world 
is broken, they will be lifted by a Power of the Creator from 
the world that is long placed over it for the purpose. 

To begin to inquire, however, by the Spirit will require some 
study of the subject, and a time should be selected that full at- 
tention can be given ; and, sitting or standing in an easy posi- 
tion for writing, the question should be drawn smoothly out as 
if the person were but learning to write, and every tendency to 
fluttering of the hand should be carefully avoided. The pen 
should then be placed upon a fresh line, or (and it is only 



that superstition should not be allowed to creep in to inter- 
rupt) upon the same line if much space is left, and after a 
moment or two's examination into the mind a selection from 
expressions, if more than one is rising to the surface, should 
be made, and tracing upon it begun with the pen. And while 
the pen is being expectantly drawn upon the paper the move- 
ment of the fingers towards the points should be carefully 
studied and the slightest feeling towards aid, in separate 
motion, noticed and the aid of the hand given with it to form 
the letters, and by that means separate motion, which requires 
attention and aid, will in the course of a few moments be very 
perceptibly felt. And after a little practice information will 
be felt as quick at the hand as a person can with the united 
action write. It will then be necessary to scrutinize very 
closely what is produced by the hand, for the Ordained Spirit 
has to keep within limits of instruction by the Holy Spirit 
that it would be worse than waste of time to question or 
inquire into, the action of malignancy in spirit being difficult 
to discern from the action of truth upon the hand. And the 
corrupt spirits expecting, when discovery of them would be 
made, if it should occur while the world is in its present 
sphere, to overbalance even the discoverer and cause desire 
for aside or curiosity questionings to people's minds, built 
their hopes upon pleasing views being seen by, in the ex- 
treme outweighing on the hand, the force of the Ordained 
Spirit; or confusing it to the extent of causing doubt in 
people's minds, and the people of the past of the world to 
take a doubtful view of all and hold aloof in fear, and that 
after some change in religious forms the interruption to the 
Law of the Creator would go on as before until possibly the 
end of the term of the world in its present sphere. Every 
loop-hole should therefore be closed against them ; and the 
aid to the Ordained Spirit should be controlling and positive 
until it is felt that the corrupt spirits are so far removed that 
neither aping nor guiling of any kind can be attempted by 
them. Questions should be repeated over and over or put in 
different forms and the answers scrutinized, and if at all widen- 
ing from the subject checked by stopping and renewing the 



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question, and so on. And it cannot be too forcibly under- 
stood that formality, other than writing the plain question in 
about the way a person would if conversing face to face with 
a respected dumb person by means of writing, would not be 
in accord with any instructions of the Holy Spirit. And that 
every question asked, in whatever form of bearing upon the 
subject, is asked directly of the Ordained Spirit, now beset 
with hinderances to aiding action within the structure of the 
inquirer's own body. And with firmness and care and trust 
in the Power of the Creator, a change for the better in health 
of body and other things will soon be perceptible throughout 
the world. 

And as every irregularity that is in the world is caused by 
devices that are acted upon by dupes of the corrupt spirits, the 
people that are now deaf and dumb will hear and speak, and 
order and health will be restored in the world. And the dis- 
order that is known of in this world as the infirmity of age, 
being part and parcel of the interruption to the Fixed Law of 
the Creator in the world, and secondarily caused by matter 
drawn into the system, little by little, from birth, will also 
cease. And people's own hands that are now yielding them- 
selves to it, aided by medical and chemical skill and the Power 
of the Creator that is within them, will remove it from 
their bodies and every hinderance to their well-being along 
with it. 

But, in case of perception by the brute spirit of the Power 
they have been aiding to interrupt and their obedient out- 
flow from the people, the work of re-establishing Order in 
the world will be of short duration. And in view of Order 
and modest bearing, and that sensation be not allowed to 
rise in the mind in reference to the people of the past of 
the world who among kindred are aware of every thought 
even that occurs to their minds, inquiry farther than to acquire 
confirmation of the fact until order is better than at present 
seen into will be better avoided. For, as the faces of people 
in the spirit are not of substance that is visible to the eye of 
the corporeal person of any that is in this world, no agreeable 
result would be accomplished by it. And a matter of such 



vast importance to every person in the world should not be 
retarded by deceptions that might be attempted were false 
feelings allowed to weigh upon the mind. But it should, in 
the disordered condition the world is in, be a source of thank- 
fulness to the Creator, and an impetus for energy to every 
person to know where they are that in support of the Power 
of the Creator can now render such aid, and are so widely 
believed in the world to be far from it, and until now more 
in error in the spirit than they ever were in their corporeal 
substance. And a blinding part of that error is their be- 
lieving themselves to be in an ordained state of simplicity, 
the souls of the bodies they were born with. That is an 
error that was fallen into after an estrangement of mind and 
bloodshed brought on by the workings of the corrupt spirits 
after their lighting upon this world when people were not so 
numerous in it as they now are; in which over one-fourth of 
what people were in the world fell victims and the Law of the 
Creator ceased to be taught. That Law, the only one that 
exists in other worlds and is barely lost sight of for awhile 
in this world, shows that in support of it and of them, in man- 
hood and in womanhood, from the beginning of existence His 
Power, invisible and imperceptible, except in results, is con- 
tinually present with them. And that when called upon for 
service in the spirit, a thing that every person born must render 
for awhile, a soul which is created with them and part of 
them is by His Power and Fixed Law for governing life sep- 
arated from them and lifted to where His Eye can at conveni- 
ence see. And that part which consists of unconscious life is 
the evidence from which His Judgment is formed of the owner. 
And His Law for governing life is such that the full standing 
of a world's people, without a possibility of any being over- 
looked, can be seen into by Him at a glance. For the souls of 
the people, according to fitness of the owners for service in the 
Spirit, or their unfitness and consequent classification for im- 
provement, have place in order ; and as improvement occurs in 
the spirit the soul passes to a place corresponding to it. And 
through the soul, which is the fountain spirit of the blood, 
bearing in it the gauge of life, Redemption from the spirit to 



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manhood and to womanhood throughout time, to which no 
end can ever be, is given by the Creator. 

The spirit is the active life, comprising the person in perfect 
form and compass, drawn conformably with the Fixed Law of 
the Creator from the body when the vitalizing element which 
is supported by the blood becomes separated from the blood ; 
and that should only occur when He requires services in the 
Spirit and in a way that no man has been instructed in ; but 
it has occurred in many worlds by violence in ways that are 
known, and in this world many ways have been found by 
the devices of the corrupt spirits to cause it. And of sub- 
stance so fine, softly quick, and clear that in substance there 
is nothing so invisible as it. That substance, quicker with- 
out given comparison, is as motive with the mind within 
it as the hand of the same person was to move with the 
will when he or she eat and drank at table. And the mind 
within it contains an active knowledge of every acquire- 
ment of previous life, and possesses the reasoning power of 
perfect birth cultured and matured. And of Righteous bear- 
ing, the spirit, when found in fitness for it, is of very eminent 
importance in the Service of the Creator. And is gifted by 
Him with strength in power, which is supported and governed 
by Fixed Power and Law that people walking on their feet 
are not instructed of; and will do well during the inquiry 
which is for their guidance in the expulsion of the corrupt 
spirits from themselves for removal from the world, to let 
inquiry upon it alone and be as circumspect and as firm in 
support of the Ordained Spirit as if the Creator in Person 
were present at their side. For the only subject in front of 
people in the inquiry is the out-of-order condition the world 
is in, the cause of it, and their qualifying themselves with 
personal knowledge to aid in the final removal of it from the 
world. That unworthy condition having been effected by the 
workings of corrupt spirits after the world had been in 
fixed place for over twelve hundred years, and the people 
ignorant then of the cause, and in after-time of the fact, when 
they that were born after the Law of the Creator had been 
got from view began to fall victims of disordered bodies, in- 



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stead of passing away in an unconscious state, through corrupt 
spirits surrounding the atmosphere having undergone a 
change, they issued from their bodies partly conscious. And 
as they arrived at a sort of sense of their being, they were 
met with greetings unworthy of place in any writing, and 
afterwards drawn into mock trials and caused in fear to 
accept provisional mock judgments, details of which would 
be equally unworthy. And in the confusion about them the 
Ordained Spirit few in comparison were described to them in 
the silent language of the Spirit as idle prompters that could 
not be got rid of, but that by guarding against would not do 
any harm. 

And as time wore on and numbers increased, the corrupt 
spirits assumed various forms of character, some causing 
themselves to be believed gods walking on their feet in other 
places, and others judges and messengers of gods, and so on, 
until Christianity, after the Hebrew break upon it, reduced the 
number of believed-in gods to one God, the principal name 
the Creator is known of in this world. For after a flight of 
the people during the first bloodshed, when ravings of spirit- 
causing were going on, gods to watch over them were raved 
about until it became a belief everywhere that people had 
settled ; and as they passed out of their bodies that belief re- 
mained in their minds, and became altered and supplemented 
often since. And as nearness to discovery was from time to 
time reached by inquiring minds, fresh instructions by feigned 
arrivals from God were circulated among the deluded spirits 
everywhere that the influence of the inquiring persons reached, 
resulting in changes to people's minds that diverted their in- 
clinings and influence in various ways upon the subject, and 
led the inquirers themselves in side directions from their pur- 
pose ; leaving the vaster number of this world's people in the 
spirit still in darkness, and many of them in doubt of there 
being at all a Supreme Being. But with a sense of the posi- 
tion they are in, — employing themselves with the Power of 
the Creator conjointly with and obedient to the Holy or 
Supreme Spirit of the Creator in the world in aid of the 
people, a change towards Divine Order will soon be so visible 



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that none will fail to understand it. And when the corrupt 
spirits, the fallen of other worlds, are separated from deceived 
support, the atmosphere will become clear of the gatherings 
that are in it, and they will be lifted away. And when order 
is restored, this world's people that are now of the spirit in it 
will be taken to Paradise, the Home of the Spirit, and when 
fitness is found in them they will be redeemed. For, numer- 
ous as they are, and they are numerous without approach to 
of any world's birth, homes will be had for them : for worlds 
without people in them are more numerous than the stars 
that are seen from this world. And inhabited worlds that are 
long obscured from view from this world by illusory strata 
of chemical occurrences in the atmosphere around it will be 
plainly seen when the atmosphere becomes clear. For the 
Creator of them has them so ordered that the perfection of 
His work can be seen from one to another. 

And when times of Redemption are approaching, worlds 
that have been fixed upon by Him for use when it is called, 
move in order of time by Fixed Power upon them to parts 
where they undergo eruptions, and the water is cast off. For 
when no use is being made of worlds, they are covered 
with water for increase of substance, and after a fixed time 
they move again to the Sphere of Paradise and become Fixed 
around worlds brought there to complete their eras. And the 
people of them worlds are made aware of the time they are 
to be removed from them ; for death of the body does not 
occur in worlds to bring their eras to a close, neither are all 
the people in them required for the spirit, and a life Record 
of every person from their own evidence is furnished to their 
hands by the fathers, and at a fixed time all are lifted away in 
bodily substance. But before that time arrives they lay up 
stores of clothing and such things as are required for the 
Service of the Creator at Redemption. For it is in these 
worlds, after the people are removed, that Redemption is 
given. 

And when redemption is called, the souls of the people to be 
redeemed are united to them, and in unconsciousness then are 
lifted in obedience to the Call to the places of redemption, for 



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the moment the soul and the spirit are united the person be- 
comes unconscious as in sleep and feels no more until called 
into life in manhood or in womanhood by the Creator, but the 
length of time from when the soul and the spirit are united until 
the redeemed person is called from sleep is not given, and 
when they awaken they are altogether unconscious of the 
time lived in the spirit, but are as sensible of former manhood 
and former womanhood as they ever were on rising from 
sleep ; and are made sensibly aware in words not written with 
hands, created from the soul on the covering that is created 
with and on the body of righteousness, or of improvement in 
the spirit, and reward is visible in their own upright standing, 
with certainty of their new manhood and new womanhood 
having been well provided for, but reward in recognition of 
service rendered awaits some that causes them to review with 
pride their former manhood, and their former womanhood ; 
for from it they know they were found worthy of trust in the 
spirit, without, in the grandeur of manhood and of woman- 
hood, knowing anything whatever of what that trust had 
been. For the Creator in person, with millions of people in 
attendance, is in the world before they are called out of sleep, 
and, from the standard of their souls, worlds of Home are 
marked out for them. Some are consecrated continual fol- 
lowers of the Creator, and are called upon, male and female, 
in the order of worlds to accompany him at times of visits 
from one world to another, and are therefore of standing in 
worlds that other people in them do not attain to. Many who 
having conformed to a provision in the law of the Creator in 
the worlds of their birth are ordained to become fathers and 
mothers in worlds consecrated to their use for a period of 
time, but the bulk of redeemed people are provided for in 
Heaven, and in worlds of Paradise ; husband and wife, bride- 
groom and bride, in accordance with the law of the Creator 
from redemption ; and many people gain their redemption 
through the removal of the dark spots of their lives from their 
souls by repentance in the spirit without having at any time 
rendered service to the Creator in the spirit. For improve- 
ment of mind in the spirit passes into redeemed life, notwith- 



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standing that while blood flows in the veins there is no recol- 
lection of the time lived in the spirit. 

When this world was taken into use by the Creator for the 
present period or era of it, He sent twelve millions of people, 
bridegroom and bride, then redeemed to enjoy His gifts with- 
in it. They were all persons of purity of life, affianced and 
only in the world of their birth ; and only they who have 
served in the Spirit are Ordained to become the fathers and 
the mothers of a world's people, and generation is Ordained 
to occur in one term of corporeal substance only. 

And before they were taken from the world they were re- 
deemed in, they were assembled before the Creator, bride- 
groom and bride beside each other, and a Book of the Law, 
a gift to be retained, placed in the hands of bridegroom and 
of bride throughout by ordained hosts attendant on them. 

And a bridegroom and a bride named Elias and Elizabeth, 
having been called before the throne, a Book of the Law was 
placed in their hands by the Creator. And at the conclusion 
of His Charge to the people, which was repeated to the hear- 
ing of all, Elias, yet standing before the throne, was given 
power representative of Him, in governance of the people in 
this world, during the period of it begun with their Redemp- 
tion for it. And when a time had expired that had been given 
for them to take into personal possession requirements that 
had been laid at convenience for them, they were lifted from 
where they stood and were alighted in this world in the part 
of it ornamented by the rivers afterwards called Euphrates 
and Tigris. 

More suns than one at that time gave light to the world, 
but from where it was then to where one sun only would, a 
term of time they were well aware it would be moved, and 
soon after their advent to it it began to move, but the length 
of time until it arrived where it now is is not given. It was 
at no time in darkness, and the atmosphere was pure and 
without coldness in it, and there was but little time allowed 
to pass before they began to turn to use for after accommoda- 
tion and enjoyment the things that the earth afforded. The 
minerals, the wood, and the stone were prepared for use where 



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they were found ; prepared in common and taken in common, 
when they were required and where they were required, by 
easy means of conveyance that is long lost view of in this 
world. And their homes were laid out and completed in an 
elegance and with accommodations that perfection of art ren- 
dered easy of accomplishment, as were also their Church edi- 
fices commanded in the Law for meeting together in Congre- 
gations of Church every seventh day for Thanksgiving and 
Prayer, an Order maintaining Service to the Creator in every 
inhabited world. And for over eleven hundred years nothing 
was out of order in the world. But an occurrence in another 
place, a result of spirit perverseness in Paradise, of which the 
people of this world in the order of their being were not aware, 
became in its result the cause of an out-of-order and sorrowful 
state of things in this world, that altered in many ways the 
order of life since within it. 

At that time, a Fixed Time of Redemption being near, the 
Creator, having in view the bringing to Redemption of a vast 
number of people that were in seclusion in the spirit, most of 
them for waywardness in the spirit, had them called to Paradise 
for Counsel and advice ; and when they learned that Redemp- 
tion was yet a little way off, and that they would have to re- 
turn to seclusion for the time, disorderliness began to work 
among them, and spreading with spirit speed most of them 
became on the impulse affected, and fearing that Power would 
be soon brought to bear upon them that would leave them 
again in seclusion, they fled from Paradise, and in the eleven 
hundred and nineteenth year of the advent of the fathers and 
the mothers to this world lit upon it. 

The violation was alone, nothing of the kind having ever 
occurred before ; and in the order of the world there was 
no provision that the Supreme Spirit of the Creator within it 
could use for having them lifted away, a feature in the order 
of life and its governance by the Creator that they were not 
slow to see into, and soon began to frame deception in faith 
of its longer existence. And being many times more nu- 
merous, the Ordained Spirit in the world caused a state of 
confusion among the lower life spirit, an important element 



in the Service of the Creator, that, governed by the Holy 
Spirit, was guided and directed by the Ordained Spirit of the 
Creator in the world. And distributing themselves all over 
the inhabited part, they began to settle themselves around 
persons and around everything that trod and fed within it. 
And being no more visible to the eye nor feelable of touch 
than the atmosphere around them, no thoughts of wrong oc- 
curring were entertained by the people who had no knowl- 
edge of the spiritual or divine governance of the world. 

The people had then increased to over one hundred and 
fifty millions, but that number was small compared with the 
number of corrupt spirits that had in blindly coursing about 
in space fallen upon the world and, in violation of the law of 
the Creator declaring themselves to the Ordained Spirit 
obedient to Him, began winding themselves around their 
bodies. And after a few had got around every person, the 
rest, pretending deep concern for everything that moved, 
began to confuse the communication between the lower life 
spirit and the Ordained Spirit that guided it, and after a while 
drew its attention almost wholly to themselves, using the 
name of the Creator in all their instructions to it. And cor- 
rosive matter, natural evolvings from earth and water, having 
been noticed by them passing away in vapor, was felt and 
examined until they succeeded in drawing particles of it 
together, for the feel and perception of the spirit are very 
acute ; and, conveying particles to vegetation, they found it 
to affect some substances ; and in experiments they also 
found it to draw and leven other matter out of rising vapor. 
And drawn about persons and other moving substances, they 
found a holding for it. Then, with the non-intelligent spirit, 
they drew it in webs from dwelling to dwelling, swelling it, 
as far as they could affect, about the people, and in that way 
of struggling to effect foul purposes they effected a net-work 
of chemically combined vapor all over the inhabited part. 
And as the air became thickened with it, change became very 
noticeable in the atmosphere that was of anxious concern to 
the fathers. 

The providings of the Creator, ordered and regulated to 



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the power of the Creator by the Holy Spirit, had then almost 
ceased to be found ; and the fathers feeling utterly unable to 
-account for the changes that were occurring, they that were 
born in the world became alarmed, and fretfulnesses that were 
partly hid in the gloom the changes were causing began to 
make inroads upon them, which the fathers saw into no means 
of assuaging ; and with them there was a falling off from ac- 
customed social habits and from church service. And when 
the misunderstood source of frettings began to be spoken of, 
the fathers nor any that were not personally perturbed by them 
would only see wild fancy in them, and felt that when the 
irregularity, which was attributed to some undiscovered plan- 
etary cause, had passed away, everything would be right again. 
The disorder was, therefore, allowed, through ignorance of it, 
to continue and increase. And from the net-work of viscous 
vapor that had been effected, chorded or strung with the lower 
life spirits, taught and placed by the corrupt spirits, connect- 
ings were effected with the corrupt spirits that had found way 
into the people, and were protruding through the pores of 
their bodies; and by means of those chordings and connect- 
ings the fretfulness was caused ; for the sound of persons' 
voices was conducted through them and operated upon until 
the voice of one person was brought to be heard by another 
at various distances apart, and broken to the ear in expression 
altogether different from anything uttered by the person from 
whom it was drawn, as if that person had been in conceal- 
ment somewhere near. At first it was confined to mockings, 
and after a while warnings began to be heard, then plannings, 
as if careless of being heard or not expressive of vileness un- 
thought of by the people of the world, come to be heard in 
the rooms of their houses and about the doors at night. 

Search after search failing to discover any person where 
the voices were felt to have issued from, people became frantic 
with rage and with fear, and accusations of unworthiness 
against members of their own houses, and against neighbors, 
begun to be harbored in people's minds, for no one could be 
got to admit what their voices were heard and believed to 
have uttered, nor to have been in concealment or otherwise in 



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places they had not been in. It therefore, from tantalizing 
mockings, such as children sometimes indulge in, and believed 
to have no existence by those who had felt nothing of them, 
became a source of estrangement of mind to persons whose 
ears had been got to catch the sound, and spread almost meas- 
uredly. Still the structure of people's minds, which is distinct 
one from the other, was a protection for a while ; for the inde- 
pendent working of the mind controlled the form of the ex- 
pressions that were heard by the ear to the extent that no two 
persons in the same place could be got to hear the same form 
of false expression, nor to hear them at all identically at the 
same moment; people, therefore, that had given ear to them, 
even in the same house, did not believe, one the other, to any 
agreeable extent in consultings about the matter, for the ex- 
pressions that were heard to the sound of other person's 
voices were formed by the corrupt spirits within the structure 
of the person's own body side by side with and pressing on 
the outflow of the mind. The strain, therefore, that was 
brought to bear upon the mind so deranged the natural cur- 
rent that imperceptible outflow was brought into contact with 
connectings to the person from the outside, and into contact 
with insulated sound that, stored in galls of viscous vapor, was 
broken to the ear at any fixed-on place within ear distance. 
The result was people's minds became turned or soured 
against each other, and as it spread suspicion got so infixed 
within them that dinner parties and other associate customs 
became rare, and suicide and murder began to occur. 

It was then one hundred and thirty-five years from the fall 
of the corrupt spirits to the world, and, no thoughts of the 
cause having been got perceptibly to people's minds, the im- 
mediate prospect as viewed by the Ordained Spirit was not 
pleasing ; for the power of the people's minds was working 
imperceptibly to themselves against them. Twice within that 
time the Holy Spirit's Power was increased to draw people's 
attention to it, but the corrupt spirits had got such hold 
within them and were so strung around them that every 
turning of the mind towards the fact was worked with by the 
corrupt spirits and led past the object. The people them- 



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selves were in a wretchedness of mind that only gave room 
to further inroads upon them, and the fathers found no means 
of altering it. They were active, and so were the mothers, in 
endeavors to draw the wrong-guided back to reason and to 
renew to all they were able to approach their personal knowl- 
edge of the Power of the Creator, giving their positive belief 
that the disorder, whatever the cause, would soon be seen into 
by the Creator and all things be restored. But the disorder 
had got headway against them and they were only listened 
to in smouldering anger or with suspicion ; for the sound of 
persons' voices other than those of personal acquaintance was 
drawn to the ear and pronouncings in them effected affect- 
ing to be deliveries from the Creator, and in them people were 
warned against the fathers and the mothers as being un- 
reasonably opposed to changes he had fixed his mind upon 
making, and that if they continued their opposition nothing 
short of cutting them off would have to be resorted to, and, 
for that, he would visit the people with punishments of which 
they were not yet aware until his purposes would be effected ; 
and that putting opposition to the influence he had brought 
to bear on the world out of the way would render him a ser- 
vice and hasten the objects he had in view, and that the knowl- 
edge the fathers and the mothers possessed could aid him in 
all he had purposed for the world, but that their opposition 
was a source of delaying trouble and must be removed before 
the new order of things was begun to be established ; and re- 
sults more unnatural, considering the knowledge they had of 
the Creator's Power and Law, than any that have since occurred 
in the world stealthily followed. 

The houses had been laid out in an order that precluded 
open view of them, and stood at such distances apart as well- 
considered room for accommodation required ; sward land 
between them was common to all, but gardens and lawns 
were fenced ornamentally in with the houses, and visiting 
having become disagreeable and dangerous, but little was 
being made known to the fathers except what they learned in 
making calls, for few made then any calls upon them. In 
duty therefore to the Creator and to the people that had come 



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into being from them, they visited and talked with them. But 
where reason had been allowed to yield to unworthy con- 
cealed influencing, means were found of depriving the world 
of them. And once murder was begun, it spread so rap- 
idly and with such stealth, for there was but little intelli- 
gencing of it, that some millions had fallen by it before 
people, not altogether blind to reason, began to think of pro- 
tecting themselves against it. But thoughts of protection 
were no sooner formed than other thoughts began to work 
upon the mind, and flight was suggested as the only means 
of safety; and with means of air travel at every dwelling, it 
was soon resorted to. But there was an urging that had more 
effect in causing flight to be looked upon as means of safety 
than silent trouble of the mind would effect in view of what 
was occurring. 

The condensing by insulation in viscous vapor of people's 
voices, and after modulation of the sound with imperceptible 
formings upon the minds of others, had become so wide- 
spread suddenly that, without time to consider, more than 
two-thirds of the people were listening with eagerness to 
them ; and each and every was told, in language the deceit 
of which was not suspected, that the Creator, cognizant even 
of their thoughts, was giving personal attention to them, and 
would watch over them in flight and in where they alighted, 
and so on ; and as they decided to leave they ascended from 
their own premises, most of them leaving timed appliances to 
effect in their absence what they shrank from seeing occur in 
their presence. And by such devices and means in the inside 
of one year over five-sixths of the people had been cut off or 
had fled from the region, and nearly all had removed from 
their homes. The fathers and the mothers, with the exception 
of nine persons, including Elias and his wife, and over twenty 
millions of others, had been reduced to silence, and the world 
deprived of them. Houses and sacred edifices lay every- 
where in ruins. The house that Elias offered up his services 
to the Creator in, in union with his people, was without injury, 
a number of the people yet clinging to reason having drawn 
together around him for protection ; and the sight meeting 



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the eyes of imaginary avengers of the Creator (for Elias was 
cried out against to deceived hearing all over the region), 
turned them aside crazed as they were in other directions ; 
and desolation visible in ruins being everywhere around 
them, those people remained where they had assembled, pro- 
viding for themselves at first by arrangement in parties from 
surrounding sources. But harmony did not continue long 
among them, and the place after awhile from among them- 
selves got the name of Babel, which in after time was changed 
to Babylon. 

Like assembling of people around them deterring frenzied 
persons caused seven other edifices to escape destruction, 
and the ground where tents and temporary dwellings stood 
being made found foundation of, they also remained in the 
places which in after time became known as Persepolis, Nin- 
eveh, Thebes, Ammon, Gerasa, Balbec, and Palmyra; and 
other uniting of more or less numbers which did not begin 
until there was little in view but their own safety to look to, 
occurring at intervals all through the Region, with flight for 
the want of means fading altogether from view, violence in a 
covert form, the only way it had occurred, became less dreaded 
and ceased altogether for a while. It was then believed by 
Elias and the surviving fathers that the Creator had seen into 
the disorder and that the cause of it was being removed by 
Him. But the irregularity that had become visible in the at- 
mosphere did not fade out of it, and before long they learned 
that the people about them were far from being in a right con- 
dition of mind, and that but little information could then be 
gathered from them. For in their workings within the flesh 
of the people the corrupt spirits had discovered that in the 
moments of returning to consciousness from sleep views of 
things and of people with imaginary conversings and talkings 
could be shadowed upon people's minds to cause irregularity 
of wakening, that when they fully awoke were remembered 
and seemed to have occupied much of the time the sleep 
lasted. And finding themselves short of their object to effect 
the destruction of all the fathers, and fearing the inquiries 
that were being made, they changed their forms of delusion. 



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For, having gained the attention in one way or another of most 
people out from the fathers, they had a backward inclining of 
.the mind to aid them in working to the view such forms of 
deception as they calculated would hold the attention and in- 
timidate to the furtherance of their object; continually hold- 
ing to the mind that everything that was done was of the 
Creator. And views and warnings effected on the mind in 
the beams of returning consciousness, which are since known 
in the world as visions or dreams, gained to them the object 
in the Region of causing people, by comporting themselves 
towards the fathers and towards each other with silent or with 
evasive suspicion, to lead inquiry altogether aside from the 
object. 

With the people that fled from the region there was but lit- 
tle change in the forms of delusion that caused their flight. 
Many of them believed they were pursued, and ceased an on- 
ward course only when exhaustion forced them to alight. 
Some reached the continent which is now America, and 
alighted in several parts of it; some got to Australia, and 
alighted widely apart. Many took refuge in Africa, but the 
greater part of them found resting places in Asia and Europe. 
The Islands of Britain and Ireland were made resting-places 
of, and several other islands throughout the world, and but few 
ever returned from the parts they alighted in. 

As people had become influenced by delusion they allowed 
what they were told in false language was an influence of the 
Creator to work within the organism of their being, and more 
especially upon the fine organism of perception and speaking. 
And through that device they accustomed themselves, when 
alone by themselves, to feel for that influencing of the organism, 
and to pronounce with their mouths in yielding to the in- 
fluencing what they believed were instructions from the Crea- 
tor, or by persons c'onveying His Will. After a while, through 
the flexions and pronouncings of their own mouths, they were 
told that the influence was being given to the world, but that 
by giving attention to it persons so intent could pronounce to 
themselves what others were saying, and to avoid that it would 
be necessary to learn language they would be instructed in, 



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that other people could not understand. Twistings and turn- 
ings of articulation were accordingly begun, and resulted in 
the many forms of expression from the Language that are used 
as languages in the world to-day. 

While the people that had taken flight were in exhausted or 
in unsettled conditions a discovery was made in Africa by the 
corrupt spirits that in its results in the inside of seven months 
changed the appearance of more than two-thirds of the people 
then walking on their feet in the world. Those of the corrupt 
spirits that had gone with them and were not within their 
bodies hung around them continually, no matter how few or 
how many were together, for except in the lesser instances 
they by no means went singly away ; and, as evaporation oc- 
curs everywhere in the world, a result of continual inflow of 
life yielding matter, they, having learned in the region to 
separate some of its parts, continued it everywhere they went, 
drawing the solvent and levening parts- discovered in the 
Region about the persons. And in what is now known as 
Soudan, near where Zaria is a separation, occurred that did not 
readily unite with other particles but floated almost separately 
about, a few feet from the ground. It was examined and 
drawn to a person and into the system of the person, and 
within a few days the color of the skin began to change. 

Intelligence of the discovery was wafted immediately 
around and with spirit speed conveyed to other parts and 
workings upon it begun, and the people, wearied in body and 
sluggish then in mind, the most part without canopy or cover- 
ing from the open air, were found easy unconscious victims of 
the discovery. It was drawn about them, and in hours of 
wakefulness lying upon ground, when the Ordained Spirit was 
hindered in action by the working power of the persons' own 
minds, was drawn into the system. For in sleep with the 
mind at rest, against the Ordained Spirit's protecting power it 
could not be effected. 

The Holy Spirit, seeing into what was occurring, sent all of 
the Ordained Spirit He had available to people to protect 
them from it ; but had far short of what He required for that 
purpose until they arrived, which was not until most of what 



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had been sleeping in the open air had been variously disfigured ; 
and frenzy had been so much fallen into then that no views 
of the cause of their condition could with the aid that 
was granted be got to their minds ; but it had the effect of 
keeping them from destroying themselves, and after a while 
they calmed down to a sort of dotage. 

The stain that was discovered in Africa differed in effect 
from any that was drawn into people elsewhere, but that was 
entirely owing to the venomous wafters of intelligence of it not 
carrying full description with them ; for, though it was first 
found together with hardly a tendency to touch other floating 
matter, it contained more parts than one, and like workings 
to cause it to get together were not effected elsewhere. And 
in Africa and every other place people that erected covering 
to sleep under escaped it. But attempts to work it inside of 
tents and of cabins were being made, when the additional aid 
to the Holy Spirit arrived, and with it His power to effect 
disclosure to the people was augmented. 

Lassitude had already taken effect, and lethargy imme- 
diately followed, and opened the way for further inroads upon 
the constitution. Illness and death of the body began to re- 
sult, and was circulated in false language to the ears of some 
and from the mouths of others as a judgment just passed 
upon the world, and that people in order to be redeemed to 
higher life should resign themselves to it. It began in the 
region close to Elias, and the people, encouraged to energy by 
him, did not feel reconciled to it, and the wants of their being 
requiring energy of them, illness that had set in was of short 
duration, and but few deaths occurred from it. But false talk- 
ing and dreaming had begun, and Elias was soon looked upon 
with suspicion and fear. Discord began among the people 
around him, and in the fifth year from the opening of the de- 
lusion that caused people in blindless of reason to aid with 
their hands the fulsome designs of a confederated lot of ill- 
conditioned spirits that in wandering in the Heavens chanced 
to fall in with this world, the twelve hundred and fifty-ninth 
year of the advent of the fathers and the mothers to the world, 
covert violence again crept on them in the region, and Elias 



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and his wife and the other surviving fathers were cut off be- 
fore it began to wear out. It lasted only a few months, for 
a Power of the Creator that was for some time expected by the 
Holy Spirit began to take effect on the world, and over one- 
fourth of the confederated fugitive spirits were lifted away. 
But what of them were within people, and within other mov- 
ing corporeal substances, and under cover of viscous gather- 
ings floating from them in the atmosphere, were not affected 
to the extent of removal. And what escaped being lifted 
away became sensible that power for their removal had reached 
the world, but were ignorant for a while of how so many 
had escaped, and darting from place to place for information, 
numbers more got lifted away. For the gatherings in the 
atmosphere were only in blotches, and communication be- 
tween each other from one blotch to another was not being 
effected. 

But they had learned to cause corruption and death of the 
body by the people themselves falling into false belief that it 
was the Will and the work of the Author and Sustainer of 
life, and relaxing in supposed obedience the power of their 
own flesh to any workings that were felt within it. And being 
still in a comparative sense very numerous, they reasoned on 
the possibility as time wore on of holding in delusion an un- 
born many to further their designs of being a source of em- 
barrassment to the Creator. But finding their numbers fading, 
after cautious examination of the atmospheric gatherings, in 
which many were drawn out as they neared the edges and 
lifted away, nearly all that were outside of people took to the 
risings from the surface and continued to widen the blotches ; 
their courses of reasoning and of action differing but little 
anywhere in the world. For after their scattering with the 
people, before distinct Power for their removal came into 
effect upon the world, they effected an understanding through- 
out, and through that understanding the people of the world 
have gone on increasing and falling, blind almost to reason 
since. They reasoned also, when they found that the accumu- 
lations in the atmosphere had become a sort of covering to 
them, that unless additional Power was sent to bear upon the 



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world or that they were discovered to the people, a thing they 
had ceased to especially dread, and reasoned that it need be 
no cause of fretfulness to them while population would be 
thin and the people estranged from confidence in each other, 
they could possibly continue in the world until the peopling 
period would have closed and it was in another sphere. 
And that before then, keeping the people as they became 
separated from their bodies more in delusion than when walk- 
ing on their feet, they would cause a state of things that would 
within a time that after workings would make clearer to them 
leave no person in the world to fear; still keeping them in 
delusion in spirit in it blind to everything but invented theo- 
ries, deductions, and doctrines that would be believed to be 
of the Creator. And that when the atmosphere would be- 
come clear, for they admitted to themselves in their reason- 
ing that such would occur when the world would arrive in 
another sphere, all would be lifted to Paradise ; this world's 
people for teaching and advice, and they to be made example 
in a rejudgment and lifting away in their presence. And that, 
having got away from Paradise once, the atmosphere being 
free for departures and arrivals in the Spirit as well as for the 
Creator's Translations of people whole in substance from and 
to it, they would, in a sudden confusing rush through this 
world's people, spread alarm among them and possibly cause 
many or most of them to leave Paradise on supposed command 
along with them. And that by skilful tergiversations and 
management, still feigning to be in the Service of the Creator, 
they would cause a continuance of the delusion ; and that 
as they lit upon this world without knowing where they 
were going, so they would at some future time light upon 
another. 

But in the Region where the people were more in company 
and were not altogether without means of building up afresh, 
and had on the whole but little inclination to scatter, the corrupt 
spirits, numerous as they were, were in constant but reckless 
fear. For the Ordained Spirit, more in proportion there than 
in other places, were making efforts Commanded with the third 
additional Power to draw attention to them, but the people, 



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attentively sensible of their wants, 1 had in^other respects not re- 
turned to reason. And as they that were born after disorder 
had begun grew up, they were kept as much in darkness of the 
past as could be effected, and but few got any education. The 
Language in its purity warned Against in 'dreams was hardly 
spoken by any; characters were invented to substitute the 
letters by which it was first placed before people's eyes, and 
but few of the many were afterwards laid hold of for use. 
Carvings of them by some were made upon wood and on 
stone with hardly an object beyond the pastime it afforded, 
which people that came into, being after them, failing to under- 
stand, made but little effort to preserve. But at Thebes and 
a few other places, previous resorts of pleasure where a few had 
been staying and were joined by others after disorder began 
in the Region, attempts were made (for they too had under- 
gone estrangement from reason) to evade the warnings by 
writing for the Language figures of what the words expressed ; 
but they got mixed up with myth and fancy ; dialects were 
becoming formed, and when the writers became separated 
from their bodies the figures they had made, strange, some of 
them, in invention and strange in execution, were only under- 
stood in a way that gave room for still wilder fancy. 

But in the region and in most places of resort sufficient 
machinery and implements remained undestroyed to continue 
building; and at times of reflection, before they that had 
known almost from childhood how to use them became 
separated from their bodies, foundations were laid and build- 
ings erected that educated those that were being brought up 
otherwise in darkness in the art ; but the architecture was 
changed, and Heaven-taught elegance and conveniences were 
absent from it. But the most of what had gone from the 
region were without means either of building or of making 
suitable apparel to wear, and, submitting the judgment of 
their minds for approval to what they believed — most of them 
reluctantly — to have been influences of the Creator working 
within and around them, preparing them for another order of 
things, they made but little effort to accomplish anything out- 
side of providing for the internal wants of their being, and 



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able intelligence in the world has since blindly witnessed the 
result. And increase of birth, which began to occur some 
time before other irregularities got to be noticed, and was a 
principal secondary cause of much of the estrangement from 
reason that followed, was explained in after workings of the 
supposed influence they were submitting themselves to as a 
gift to them of the Creator. And the more people increased 
the faster hopes were sifted by the corrupt spirits, and the 
impossible tried to be made harmonize, — namely, of at some 
time causing a barrier to the power of the Creator that would 
cause Him to alter the order of His works. And with that 
hope foremost in their minds, they continued in the world 
foiling all attempts at active discovery to the present time. 
The writer of the Book of Genesis was led past his first views 
of spirit influenced by them, and so was every writer that 
undertook to write under spirit influence or guidance since ; 
and until they are removed the people of the world will not 
clearly understand what the blessings of life are. 

Cold, storms, and disease of the earth's produce, and vermin 
of every kind are occurrences from the irregularities that are 
in the atmosphere, and all of them will cease as soon as the 
workings that cause them are broken off. And when order 
becomes re-established the people of the past of this world's 
present era will be lifted from it to Paradise and placed in 
preparation for redemption. For, until they are redeemed, 
after they are taken from this world, they will not be required 
for service in the spirit, and would not, whatever the length 
of time, be moved from this world until a knowledge of the 
disorder they have been in was made or became plain to 
them. But that knowledge would not in the order of the 
world be much longer in darkness from them ; for in June of 
last year it was five thousand nine hundred and seventy-three 
years since the advent of the fathers and the mothers to the 
world ; and in twenty-seven years from then the peopling 
part of the era will have closed, and the world, like the 
moving of an instrument set to time, will begin to move to 
the light of another sun in an outer circle of Paradise, in 
which there is no fixed time for nearer moval of it for the 



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removal of the people from it. And there the atmosphere 
would be cleared without the aid of the people of the past or 
of the present of the world and the corrupt spirits lifted away, 
and every form of life in spirit in delusion in it shown the 
disorder they had been in without being at all as favorably 
considered as will occur by the world being in order before 
it reaches there. 



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